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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Jaap G. van der Laan, Henk Th. Klippel, Rob C. L. van der Stad, Co Bakker
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 4 | July 1991 | Pages 2070-2075
Technical Paper | Carbon Material Special | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29341
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The response of plasma-facing materials to off-normal high heat loads expected in Next European Torus/International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (NET/ITER) disruptions has been studied by both experimental and numerical simulations. Experiments have been performed on a number of pyrolytic graphites and carbon-fiber composites. The measured erosion is compared with numerical predictions by a transient heat load code. The effect of variations in thermophysical material parameters on thermal erosion behavior is discussed. Cracking is observed on the surface of pyrolytic graphites, even below the erosion threshold.
